Every evening after the close, our machine-learning model scans the U.S. market and hands you a handful of quality stocks whose setups are in place. More than half reach +5% within two weeks; 86% reach it within their window. Trading, not investing — and no screener finds these for you.
Same question for both: did the price reach the mark within four weeks? Ours is every setup we have published, winners and losers. The comparison is every S&P 500 stock, from the start of each month, over the last three years.
Hypothetical peak (maximum favorable move) across all — published setups that completed their 4-week window, measured as of — — a level the price touched, not returns earned, not advice. Snapshot taken on the last trading day of each month and never restated. S&P comparison: current constituents, month-start to monthly high, 3-year average — it reads high, which works against us. Month by month on the Track Record.
Every name on your board arrives as a card like this. Here's what each part is telling you.
An illustrative example. See today's live board →
Search the web and you'll find a thousand ways to scan for stocks — RSI, MACD, Bollinger bands, a YouTube method, a Reddit thread. All of them hand you a list and leave the hours of work to you. Our model was trained on ten years of daily data to recognise the price conditions that most often came before a move over the next few weeks, then validated on years it had never seen. Think of it as the difference between a search engine and an answer: you don't get a hundred candidates, you get the handful that fit — each one already checked for financial health.
Same 1,000 stocks, same ten years, same question: did the price reach +5% within four weeks? Our setups: 71%. RSI oversold: 62%. Bollinger band: 57%. MACD cross: 53%. A random day: 54%.
45% of our setups reached +10%, against 24% on a random day and 31% for the best of the classic screens. The move the board is built around is simply there more often.
The classic screens fired 9,000 to 41,000 times over the decade; our setups 3,900 — and every published one has also passed the quality gate. Hypothetical, peak touched not returns earned, not advice.
A screener matches rules you typed in. The model learned which conditions actually preceded moves — across 600 stocks and a decade — and scores every stock on them each night.
The scan, the scoring, the fundamental check and the tracking all happen before you sit down. You see a handful of names, their AI Score, and how each has behaved since.
Every setup we publish is tracked in public, winners and losers, with its real returns. Most sites show you their best trades. We show you all of them.
Every board carries a regime read for the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq-100: where each sits against its own last three years, as a percentile and as a distance from its 200-day line. Green means the market has recently reset — historically the friendliest backdrop for these setups; in our research, setups entered after a reset returned several times what the same setups returned in a stretched market. Yellow and Orange mean stretched. It's context for how much to risk, not a trigger — and almost nobody else puts it next to the stock list.
See it: Today's regime bar → · How to use it →
You trade in your own brokerage account, you're after 5–10% moves over days to weeks, and you'd rather spend ten minutes an evening on a vetted shortlist than hours on screens.
You day-trade, you want someone to place trades for you, or you want a fund manager. We're a research publisher — we find the setups, you trade them with your broker.
Open the board after 5 pm ET, look at the Active names, check the AI Score and the 💎, pick what fits your plan, and trade it where you already trade. Getting started →
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Setups still inside their window — Active (has not yet run 5% above where it was added — some sit below it) and Out of Range (has run 5% or more) — with the fundamentally strongest marked 💎 High-Quality. Once a name has run and passed the four-week mark — or after twelve weeks if it never runs — it moves to the Track Record. We show every move as a percentage from the day it was added; the price on any day is in your brokerage account.
The bigger, slower move. Quality names the model reads as turning back up after being marked down. They tend to run further and take longer to get there — and they test you harder on the way, because the dip before the move is usually deeper. The 💎 marks the ones whose fundamentals are sound enough to hold through that.
The smaller, quicker move. Established leaders taking a breather inside strength the model reads as still intact. They tend to pop sooner and settle sooner — less drama and less waiting, but a smaller move to work with.
The difference isn't how often they work. Both reached +5% at peak most of the time — the first move looks much the same. What separates them is how far they go after that: Cruise tends to pop and stall, Phoenix keeps running. That's why a Phoenix asks for more patience and a stronger stomach, and a Cruise asks for less of both.
The board shows every name the model flags today. The 💎 badge is your confidence signal — a business sound enough to hold through a drawdown. Names without it can still work, but demand more of your own homework and smaller size. A quiet day may show only a handful of setups — by design. Tip: click any ticker to see the shape of its move.
A setup retires here once it has run +5% and passed the 4-week mark — or after 12 weeks if it never runs — with its actual 2-, 4- and (where held that long) 12-week returns, its peak and the worst dip along the way. Each figure locks at its own maturity and is never restated. No cherry-picking: every retired name is shown, winners and losers alike.
Returns are actual close-to-close at 2 / 4 / 12 weeks after the stock was added. Peak is the best intraday level reached since — a hindsight high, not a return anyone captured. Everything on this page is measured from the price when added, paper-tracked during live validation (started Jul 20, 2026), subject to survivorship bias and excluding costs. Educational research, not advice.
We built a proprietary setup using machine learning on years of market history — trained to recognize the conditions that have tended to precede strong swing-trade moves. On top of it sits a quality gate grounded in published academic research, so every name we surface has also passed a fundamental quality gate — 💎 cleanly, or ◆ with reservations noted — and companies that fail it are never published.
Because markets are unpredictable. What separates successful traders from everyone else isn't forecasting the next move — it's how they act when things get uncomfortable. That's what we're really offering: conviction. When one of these high-quality setups runs into volatility, the quality gate is your reason to stay patient — sound companies tend to bounce back, even if it takes a longer holding period to get there.
We trained a machine-learning model on ten years of daily data across the U.S. market, and asked it a single question: which price behaviors best predicted which companies would outperform over the following few months? We validated it the honest way — always on data the model had never seen. From that research we distilled a small, disciplined scanner that grades the entire market every night — and we'll walk you through the thinking behind it.
A model studies a decade of history to learn the fingerprint of stocks that went on to outperform.
Tested walk-forward, out-of-sample only. If it didn't hold on unseen data, it didn't make the cut.
Survivors pass the fundamental quality gate. Fragile businesses are removed before you ever see them.
Every setup is tracked live in a paper portfolio — so the numbers we trust are real-time, not just backtests.
Mid- and large-cap U.S. stocks — S&P 500 and S&P 400 constituents — priced $50 or more when added, screened by our fundamental quality gate. We deliberately skip small caps and low-priced stocks: they move differently, trade thinner, and are where the disasters live.
Methodology note, Sep 29, 2026: this published-universe rule was written into the pipeline on this date, while the site was in private beta. The track record and the monthly snapshot were recomputed on the same rule before the first monthly lock, so every figure on the site describes one universe. Any future change to the rule will be dated here the same way.
Update, Oct 7, 2026: a setup now stays Active until it has run +5% above its added price, for up to 12 weeks — previously every name left the board at 4 weeks regardless. Once it runs it moves to Out of Range and retires at the 4-week mark (or at once, if it first runs after week 4); a name that never runs retires at 12 weeks. The setups we publish are designed around a 12-week horizon, and our research shows names still near their added price after week 4 historically remained attractive — while names that had already run 5%+ did not. The monthly 4-week record is by entry date and is unaffected. Nothing in past records has been restated.
When a stock goes on the board, the conditions our model looks for are in place that evening. Active means they still are. Once a stock is Out of Range, the move has happened. So the board is split by what price has done since the stock was added, not by date.
The stock has not yet traded 5% above the price it was added at — some sit below it, and those stay Active on purpose. The conditions the model flagged are still in place, so this is the list to study first, for up to twelve weeks. Fresh arrivals this week carry a gold NEW tag.
The stock has traded 5% or more above its added price at least once — the move has happened, and a pullback does not send it back. We keep these to show how setups play out: their Peak vs Max Dip, and the median time to peak, evidence that gains often arrive in weeks, not months. Educational, not an invitation to chase.
Because we use no stop-loss and no price targets, the board tells you when conditions look ripe — the entry timing, the position size, and especially the exit are always your decision. The Out of Range board exists to build conviction, not to imply anyone bought at the low or sold at the peak.
No stock trades in a vacuum. When the broad market — measured by SPY — is healthy and trending, most quality setups have the wind at their back. When it's weak or stretched, even a good setup fights a headwind. That's why the board carries a simple market regime read at the top: not to predict the market, but to tell you how hard to lean in today.
How much a stock amplifies the market's move. A beta near 1.5 tends to swing about 1.5× SPY — a tailwind in a strong tape, and painful in a weak one. High-beta names need a healthier regime to be worth the ride.
How tightly a name tracks the market. Highly correlated names give you little shelter — when SPY drops, they usually drop with it. Lower-correlation quality names are steadier when the tape turns.
A four-step read on how stretched the S&P 500 is versus its own recent history: Green (recently reset — historically the friendliest backdrop), Yellow (moderately stretched, an ordinary reading), Orange (unusually stretched — most such periods pass quietly, but the market's rare deep drops have historically started here), Red (below its long-term trend). Context for how hard to lean in — never a forecast or a command.
In our ten-year research, the same setups returned on average +8.6% over twelve weeks when entered with the dial Red (the market below its long-term trend, after a correction) against +1.7% when entered in Yellow (stretched). That is roughly a five-fold difference from the same stock list — the dial is a return lever, not just a mood indicator.
The live book, started in July 2026, says the same thing so far: setups added with the market Healthy averaged +7.0% at four weeks (90 setups) against −0.4% for those added with it Extended (11 setups — a small sample, read with care).
So, in practice: Green or Red — the board has usually earned fuller attention and the more patient, bigger Phoenix names tend to pay; Yellow — ordinary, size as you normally would; Orange — be choosier, smaller, and favour the steadier Cruise names. The dial changes how much, never whether the setup is real.
We frame regime as context, not a command — a way to gauge how supportive conditions are, never a hard veto or a market forecast. We can't predict the market any more than we can predict a single stock. A weak regime is generally a reason for caution — the environment tends to favor lower-beta, less-correlated quality names; a healthy regime is more supportive. Same setups, read against the conditions.
Our model's conviction reading, distilled from years of market data. Higher means a stronger match to what we're looking for. Use it to prioritize your attention — a ranking, not a promise.
💎 means the company cleared a fundamental safety screen built on published academic research. It's not about predicting the next move — it's about knowing the business underneath is sound.
Which of our two setups the stock fits — Phoenix or Cruise. Each carries its own character and temperament, so you know the kind of opportunity you're holding and roughly what to expect.
A quick read on how the name is carrying itself versus the broader market — Strong, Neutral, or Weak. Shown two ways: as it was when the stock was added, and as it is now, refreshed each evening. Context, one of several inputs the model considers, not a signal to act on by itself.
The industry and business type (Core, Growth) so you can keep your own portfolio balanced and avoid piling into one theme.
No entry price. No exit. No "buy now." We tell you the conditions look ripe from a technical standpoint — the decision, the sizing, and the timing are always yours.
The hardest part of swing trading isn't finding a setup — it's holding it when it goes against you for a while. Most people sell good positions at the worst possible moment out of fear. Our fix is upstream: every name we publish first has to clear a fundamental safety screen. So when a position wobbles, you already know the business behind it is solid. That's what lets you sit still.
Screens are grounded in published research (Piotroski, Altman, Novy-Marx, Sloan). The gate's job isn't to boost returns — it's to keep fragile businesses out, so a temporary drawdown stays temporary.
You can be handed the best setups in the world and still lose money — because trading is won or lost in the head, not on the chart. The Slow Swing is a tool; how you use it is what decides your results. This is the mindset we build the product around, and the part no scanner can do for you.
Winners aren't the ones with a secret — they're the ones who follow a consistent method without improvising. Use The Slow Swing as your first filter or a second opinion to anchor your process.
Trades are won in the uncomfortable middle. Real conviction — earned from a company's quality — is what lets you hold through a drawdown instead of getting shaken out.
Don't trust any system on past performance — build trust through experience. Start small, size up slowly, and never go all in. Live to trade the next day.
Every trader — winning or losing — has a methodology. What separates the successful ones isn't a cleverer secret; it's the discipline to follow their method consistently, without improvising the moment emotions flare. A repeatable process quietly removes the thousand small, emotional decisions that erode returns over time.
That's where The Slow Swing fits. It's a disciplined, unemotional filter that runs the same way every single night. Use it as your first filter — a vetted shortlist to begin your own research from — or as a second opinion after your own screen. Either way, it anchors your process in something consistent, instead of a gut feeling that changes with your mood.
The biggest difference between a winning trade and a losing one is rarely the entry — it's the grit to hold through the uncomfortable stretch in between. Nobody can predict the next move. There are simply too many variables acting on a stock at once for anyone to know which way it goes next, and pretending otherwise is exactly how people get shaken out at the worst possible moment.
What carries you through those stretches is conviction — and conviction has to be earned, not faked. When you genuinely believe in the business underneath (which is precisely what the quality gate is for), a deep drawdown becomes something you can sit through, and even average into deliberately, rather than panic-sell. Markets routinely overreact — over-punishing a strong company on a small revenue miss — and those are often the names that rebound fastest once sentiment comes back to its senses.
There's a subtler trap, too: scale changes how a loss feels, even when the math doesn't. Early on, a $100 loss on a $1,000 trade barely registers — but a $10,000 loss on a $100,000 trade can throw you into internal chaos, or freeze you from making the next trade at all. On a percentage basis they're identical; our brains simply aren't wired to see it that way — we react to the dollar figure, not the ratio. The skill to build is getting to the point where both losses feel the same. Traders who master this don't get rattled out of a sound approach early, before it's had the chance to work — which is often the whole difference between winning and losing over time.
Conviction is not stubbornness. It's grounded in the company's quality — not in a refusal to ever be wrong. If the reason you owned it genuinely breaks, that's a different situation from ordinary volatility.
Your stock runs up 12%. Then it gives half of it back in a week. The chart looks sick. Everything in you says: get out while you're still green.
We wanted to build a warning light for exactly that moment. So we went back through 9,000 of our past signals and asked one question: when a stock starts looking sick mid-trade, does it actually do worse afterward?
No. It doesn't. The "sick-looking" stocks did just as well over the next two months as the healthy-looking ones. The ugly dip told us nothing about what came next. We tried three different warning lights. All three failed the test.
77% of signals · next 8 weeks averaged +5.9%, 58% positive
20% of signals · next 8 weeks averaged +6.7%, 59% positive
3% of signals · next 8 weeks averaged +7.7%, the widest lead over the index
That's why there is no "take profits now" light on this board. Not because we're hiding one — because we looked, and it doesn't exist.
Here's the honest math on those scary dips. Out of every 100 of them, about 50 climbed all the way back. About 50 didn't. A coin flip — and nothing we tested could tell you which side your stock is on. But the winners gained more than the losers lost, so the group as a whole still made good money. Sell every dip out of fear, and you dump the 50 winners along with the 50 losers — and lose more than you save.
So think of the dip as a toll booth. It's the price the market charges for the full move. You can't drive around it. You can only make sure the toll never breaks you — and that's done before the trade, not during it: keep every position small enough that a bad dip doesn't matter. Small positions, no panic. That's the whole trick.
We built three "sell now" warning lights and tested them on 9,000 signals. All three failed. The scary dip tells you nothing.
Hypothetical, backtested research (2019–2026, overlapping windows, no transaction costs, survivorship bias applies — today's constituents only). Past patterns can stop working. This describes what we found, not what you should do with a position; when and whether to sell is yours. Never bet money you can't afford to see dip.
Before any of this, understand your own risk appetite — how much you can lose without it affecting your sleep or your judgment. And don't trust any system, including ours, on the strength of past performance. Trust isn't claimed; it's built slowly, through your own experience using it.
So start small. Trade sizes you're genuinely comfortable being wrong on, and only increase them as the system earns your confidence over time. And no matter how much trust you build, keep your risk controlled and never go all in. The goal isn't to win the biggest single trade — it's to still be here for the next one. We have to live to trade the next day.
Everything on this site, in reading order. Some of it lives on other pages and is linked from here; the rest is written for this page. Read it once, slowly. It is a description of our approach and what our data showed — not a set of instructions for you.
Every evening after the close, a model we built scans the U.S. market — mid- and large-caps priced $50 and above, never small caps or low-priced stocks — and publishes a short list of stocks whose conditions look ripe for a swing — a move measured in weeks. Each name is screened by a fundamental quality gate. The same list goes to every subscriber; nothing is tailored to anyone.
This is trading, not investing. We are not describing companies to own for years. We are describing a price condition that, historically, tended to be followed by a move over the next one to three months. The stock's long-term story is not the point; the setup is.
This is research, not advice. We are a publisher. We are not a broker-dealer or an investment adviser; we don't execute trades, hold money, or know your situation. Nothing here says buy, sell, or how much. The board marks the day a stock was added — the evening it qualified — and from there every decision is yours.
Who it's for. People with a job and a life who want a few deliberate trades a month, held for weeks, chosen from a vetted list rather than a feed. Who it isn't for. Day traders, anyone who wants to be told what to do, or anyone who can't sit through a dip without selling.
A name stays on the live board until its move has happened and four weeks have passed since it was added; a name whose move never comes leaves at twelve weeks. Three stages, and the data has something to say about each.
Has not yet traded 5% above its added price (its Peak is under 5%) — or is below it. The setup is, in our terms, still ripe, and it stays Active for up to twelve weeks. Price decides this, not the calendar: a name can be Active in week nine. Names that are down from where they were added are still Active on purpose: in our data, entries near or below the line did better than entries after the move had started.
Has traded 5% or more above its added price at least once — its Peak is 5% or more. The move has happened. We keep these visible so you can see how setups play out — not as an invitation to chase. Chasing is the single easiest way to turn a good setup into a bad trade.
Once a name has run 5% and is four weeks past being added — or twelve weeks after being added if it never runs — it leaves the board and lands on the Track Record with its real returns, its peak and its worst dip. Every name retires — winners, losers, and the ones that went nowhere. Nothing is quietly dropped.
Why the move decides, not the calendar. The setups are built around a twelve-week horizon, and the board used to drop every name at four weeks. When we tested that on 4,865 historical signals, it was the wrong ruler: a name that was still near its added price at week four went on to return about 6% over the following eight weeks on average, and names that were down more than 10% at week four did best of all — while names that had already run 5%+ by week four paid the least from there. The median low on the path comes around day five, and roughly one in five eventual +25% winners dipped more than 20% on the way. Dropping a name at four weeks was grading it at its statistically ugliest moment. So since Oct 7, 2026 a name stays Active until it has actually run; once it has, and the four-week mark has passed, it retires. This is a reporting window, not a holding rule.
What retirement doesn't mean. A retired name is not a sell signal, any more than an Active name is a buy signal. The board tracks a window; what you do inside or beyond it is yours.
The board refreshes after each close. This is how we read it — once, in the evening, in about ten minutes. Described, not prescribed.
Then close the tab. A few deliberate looks a week is the point of the product. If you find yourself checking hourly, you are reading it wrong — the psychology page is about why.
Most swing-trading playbooks come with the same three tools: a stop-loss, a profit target, and a rule for getting out when the trade "looks wrong." We tested each of them on our own signals — thousands of them, across years — before deciding whether to build them into the product. All three failed.
Every stop level we tested, from tight to loose, reduced returns. The reason is on the psychology page: nearly every winner dips first, and a stop sells the dip.
Taking gains at a fixed level cut the expectancy of the whole book. The setups' edge comes from the minority that keep running, and a target sells exactly those.
Three definitions of "conditions are changing" mid-trade, tested on 8,974 signals. None predicted weaker returns ahead. The chop is the toll.
The conclusion we drew for ourselves: at this horizon, risk control that happens during a trade — stops, targets, exit signals — cost more than it saved. The risk control that survived testing happens before the trade: position sizes small enough that a bad dip, or a total loss, does not matter. That is why the board carries no exits, no targets and no warning lights, and why the psychology page keeps returning to sizing.
One more finding that surprised us. The model's score tends to fall after a setup works. That is not the setup deteriorating; it is the markdown closing — the very thing the model was looking for going away because the stock recovered. A falling score after entry is what winning looks like in this system.
All of this is hypothetical, backtested research (2019–2026, no transaction costs, survivorship bias applies). It describes what we found and what we chose not to build. It is not a recommendation to trade without stops, or to hold anything — every exit is a personal decision with real risk of loss.
The Track Record shows every retired setup, winners and losers alike. Four things to hold in mind while reading it:
The evening a stock qualified for a setup and went on the board. Every row shows its date. Not a buy instruction.
See it: Active board → · How to read a card →
The two setup types. Phoenix: the bigger, slower recovery move. Cruise: the smaller, quicker breather inside a trend.
See it: Phoenix on the board → · Cruise on the board → · The two setups →
Conviction — how strongly the conditions matched the model. Higher is stronger; it is not a forecast.
See it: Filter the board by score → · What the score means →
A fundamental screen every published name has passed: 💎 High-Quality or ◆ Watch. Names that fail it are tracked internally but never published. The reason you can hold a dip.
See it: 💎 High-quality only → · How the gate works →
How the name is moving against the broad market: Strong, Neutral or Weak. Shown as of the day added, and now.
See it: Filter by Pulse → · Where it shows →
Where SPY and QQQ sit against their own history: Green (reset), Yellow (extended), Orange (stretched), Red (below trend).
See it: Today's regime bar → · How we read it →
The best level the price touched since the stock was added, as a percentage. Hypothetical, not earned.
See it: Track Record → · On every card →
The worst level below the price when added, in the first four weeks. What you would have had to sit through early on.
See it: Track Record → · Why we sit through it →
Has not run +5% yet (up to 12 weeks) · has run +5% · has run and passed the 4-week mark, or 12 weeks without running, and on the Track Record. Age (Fresh under 4 wk, Seasoned 4–12 wk) is shown; price, not age, decides Active.
See it: Active board → · Out of Range → · Retired (Track Record) →
Seven short steps and you'll know how to get value out of the board tonight. Everything else — what each number means, what an evening looks like, your account — is in the FAQ.
Every evening after the close, our model scans U.S. mid- and large-cap stocks for two patterns that have historically been followed by a move over the next few weeks. Phoenix is a quality stock turning back up after being marked down — the bigger, slower move. Cruise is a market leader pausing inside a strong trend — the smaller, quicker move. A stock that fits one of them goes on the board that night. That's the whole menu, and it's deliberately short.
See it: The two setups → · Phoenix on the board → · Cruise on the board →
The Active board is the live list: stocks still near the price they were added at, where the setup is still ripe. Out of Range holds the ones that have already moved up 5% or more — useful to watch how setups play out. Each row shows the stock's Peak (the best it has done since it was added) and Max Dip (the worst), so you know what to expect from it. Click any ticker for the shape of its move.
One card, taken apart. Every name arrives as a card like this — here is what each part is telling you.
An illustrative example.
See it: Active board → · Out of Range → · How to read a card →
Before a stock reaches you it passes a fundamental screen — profitability, balance-sheet strength, a bankruptcy-risk veto, cash generation. 💎 passed cleanly; ◆ passed with reservations. Companies that fail never make the board. This is what makes the dips bearable: when the business underneath is sound, a red week is a wait, not a crisis.
See it: How the gate works → · 💎 High-quality only →
We find the setups; you take the ones you like to your own broker — Schwab, Fidelity, Robinhood, thinkorswim, whichever you use — and place the trade there. The board gives you the stock, the setup, the quality check and its behaviour so far; the decision and the order are yours. That's the division of labour, and it's the one that keeps you in control.
See it: What this is, and isn't →
The best way to learn a method is to trade it small. Start with a handful of shares per stock, spread across several setups rather than one, and let the first few weeks teach you how these moves feel — the dip first, then the run. You lose very little finding out, and you build real confidence instead of borrowed confidence.
See it: Risk appetite →
Once you've watched a few setups play out and the board behaves the way the Track Record says it does, scale up. Our record is open — every setup, winners and losers, with its real returns — so you can check our numbers against your own experience at any time. Confidence that comes from both is the kind that survives a bad week.
See it: The track record → · Reading it honestly →
We don't publish stops or targets, because every one we tested cut into results. What works is picking your own approach and sticking to it. Some members take a fixed gain — 5% or 10% — and move on. Some ride a trailing stop to let winners run. Some hold the full window. Use the Peak and Max Dip on each row to set realistic expectations, decide your plan before you place the trade, and write it down.
See it: What we tested and rejected → · The chop →
The seven steps are on Getting started; every term on the board is one line each in the Handbook glossary. This page is the short list.
It's a shortlist. A setup tells you a quality company is in a position that has historically been followed by a move — the hard, time-consuming part of finding candidates is done. Which ones you trade, and how, is where your judgement comes in.
Usually two to six, sometimes zero. The model only adds a stock when the conditions are there. A long list would mean the bar is too low.
Because it hasn't run yet — and our research says that's often where the opportunity is. Names still near or below their added price after a few weeks went on to do better than names that had already moved. So we keep them Active deliberately, so you don't lose sight of them. More →
It retired: either it had run 5% and passed the four-week mark, or it spent twelve weeks without running. Retired names are on the Track Record with their real returns. Nothing is quietly dropped. More →
The stock qualified in tonight's scan. Our paper book enters it at tomorrow's open — nobody could have bought at tonight's close — so there is no price or scorecard until then.
The move is what matters for judging a setup, and a percentage makes a $60 stock and a $900 stock comparable on one board. The price on any given day is in your brokerage account. More →
Across every setup that completed its first four weeks, the share whose Peak reached +5% and +10% — set against the same measure for a typical S&P 500 stock. Snapshot taken at each month end and never restated. Hypothetical peak, not returns anyone earned. Month by month →
Because the setups describe a price condition that has tended to resolve over weeks — not a company to own for years. Different horizon, different mindset. More →
We tested them on thousands of our own setups; every version made results worse. The dip is usually the toll, not the verdict. More →
It's research, and we're a publisher — the same board goes to every member. We don't know your situation, so we can't tell you what to buy or comment on individual trades. What we can do is make sure every name on the board has earned its place and show you exactly how each one has behaved.
The board is a table with a lot of columns. Here is one row, taken apart. The numbers are illustrative.
| Ticker | Sector | Setup | AI Score | Quality | Pulse @ Add | Pulse now | Added | Age | Regime @ Add | Current % | 2wk ▲ | 4wk ▲ | Peak ▲ | Max Dip ▼ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ABCD NEW Example Co. 1 |
Tech 2 |
Phoenix 3 |
3.4 4 |
💎 High-Quality 5 |
Weak 6 |
Strong 6 |
Sep 22 7 |
2.4 wk 8 |
Healthy 9 |
-3.1% 10 |
-1.2% 11 |
— 11 |
+4.6% 12 |
-8.9% 13 |
Click the ticker for the shape of its move since it was added. NEW = added this week. PENDING = qualified after tonight's close, enters at tomorrow's open.
So you can keep your own portfolio balanced and avoid piling into one theme.
Phoenix (bigger, slower recovery) or Cruise (smaller, quicker breather). Each has its own temperament.
How strongly the stock matched what the model looks for. Higher is stronger. It ranks attention; it is not a forecast.
💎 passed our fundamental screen cleanly; ◆ passed with reservations. Failing companies are never shown.
How the stock is moving against the broad market — Strong, Neutral or Weak — frozen as of the day it was added, and refreshed each night.
The evening the stock qualified and went on the board. Everything to the right is measured from the price that day.
Weeks since it was added. Fresh = under 4 weeks; Seasoned = 4–12. Age does not decide whether a stock is Active — price does.
How stretched the S&P 500 was when the stock was added: Healthy, Extended, Weak or Over-extended. Context for sizing, not a trigger.
Where the stock is tonight versus the price when added. Negative is normal early on — most setups dip first.
Real close-to-close returns at those marks, filled in as the stock gets there. A dash means it isn't that old yet.
The best level the price touched since it was added. A hindsight high, not a return anyone earned. At 5% or more the stock moves to Out of Range.
The worst level below the price when added, in the first four weeks. What you would have had to sit through.
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Everything on this page is a hypothetical backtest: the setups our model would have generated since 2017 under the same rules the board uses today, measured against ordinary S&P 500 stocks. The live record — what we have actually published since July 2026 — is on the Track Record and is labelled separately. The two are never mixed.
Each panel is one target. The solid line is the share of Slow Swing setups whose price had touched that level by week N; the dashed line is an S&P 500 stock from an arbitrary starting day. The tint between them is the gap — the edge shows up in week one and never hands it back; it just migrates to bigger targets.
Backtested, not a record of published setups. Levels touched at the intraday peak after the setup — not returns earned. Setups: the 2,005 with a complete 12-week window. S&P 500 line: current index members, 69,091 arbitrary start dates, Oct 2023 to present, same measurement. Current constituents only, so survivorship flatters both lines.
Everything on this page is a hypothetical backtest: the Slow Swing setups our model would have generated over the past ten years under the same rules the board uses today — both setups, the quality screen, a $50 minimum price, entry at the next session's open, one setup per stock per month at most. The site began publishing setups in July 2026; our live track record lives on the Track Record page and is labelled separately.
"Reached +X%" means the price touched that level at its intraday peak after the setup appeared. It is not a return anyone earned.
The comparison line is an S&P 500 stock measured from arbitrary starting days over the past three years — 69,091 of them. Both measurements use today's index members, which flatters the past (survivorship). Our quality screen is applied using today's verdicts; historical screen data does not exist.
We show you the full range of outcomes, including the losing tail, because that is what using a system like this actually feels like.
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